title: Artifact removal algorithm for an EMG-based Silent Speech Interface.
abstract: An electromygraphic (EMG) Silent Speech Interface is a system which recognizes speech by capturing the electric potentials of the human articulatory muscles, thus enabling the user to communicate silently. This study deals with improving the EMG signal quality by removing artifacts: The EMG signals are captured by electrode arrays with multiple measuring points. On the resulting high-dimensional signal, Independent Component Analysis is performed, and artifact components are automatically detected and removed. This method reduces the Word Error Rate of the silent speech recognizer by 9.9% relative on a development corpus, and by 13.9% relative on an evaluation corpus.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wand
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Himmelsbach
authors.forename: Till
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Heistermann
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Janke
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schultz
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D004576:Electromyography; D005152:Facial Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology